Excerpts
from the Advance Argus, Greenville, Mercer County, PA, May 5, 1898,
page 7
CAN
RETAIN OLD POSITIONS
Patriotic
Order issued By The Pittsburg,
Bessemer
and Lake Erie Railroad Company.
The
following self-explanatory and patriotic notice was issued today:
THE
PITTSBURG, BESSEMER & LAKE ERIE R. R. COMPANY.
Office
of General Superintendent
NOTICE.
PITTSBURG,
PA., April 28, 1898
To
All Concerned:
The
President of the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad company
desires it understood that such employees of that company as are now
members of the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, or Ohio, in
the event of their being called into the service by the United States
Government, shall upon their return from such service be entitled to the
same position and rank in the service of said railroad company, as they
occupied when entering the Government’s service, provided they are
physically able to perform the same duties.
F
E. HOUSE,
General
Superintendent.
THIEL
COLLEGE NEWS
The
Chrestomathean society has elected the following Thielensian officers:
Editor-in-chief,
O E. Pearch, '99; associate editor, I. R.
Moore, '99; business manager, Walter Eck,
'00.
The
following program was rendered by Chrestomathean society:
Declamation—Patriotism
, Yeany.
Esssays—“Travel,”
Snyder; “Destruction of Battleship Maine,” Emerson.
Reader
— “Mrs. Wilkins’ Accomplishments,” Hansen,
Sr.
Impromptu
— Eckert, Pearch, Myers, Hansen, Sr. and Bermon.
Orator—“A
Man’s a Man for a’ That,” Eck.
Regular
debate was excused. In general debate Messrs, Steckel,
Emerson, Uhl and Zahn spoke.
The
regular recitation exercises of the college were suspended, Thursday and
today, the occasion being the observance of Arbor day.
The
day was not celebrated here on the proper date, owing to the inclemency of
the weather, but in the days above mentioned about thirty students and
members of the faculty, under the direction of
President Roth, assembled in the grove in the rear of the, campus,
and armed with rakes, spades and axes, laid siege to the dead leaves and
other refuse lying about.
A
large number of trees were planted and others trimmed, so that now the
grove is a most attractive spot.
Among
the students who went with the guards to Mt. Gretna are Messrs.
Jonsson, Symonds, Christy, Gongaware and Seitz.
The first three went as musicians and the others as privates.
Miss
Hattie Slaugenwhite, of Mabone, Nova Scotia, is a new arrival at
Daily hall.
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ADDITIONAL
LOCAL.
High
school commencement will take place on Friday, May 6.
Captain
Martin, of Company K, has wired home for thirty more recruits.
The
new house of A. Coxon on Elm street is almost
completed and will be occupied by the owner in a few days.
J.
H. Waugh and L. A. Burnett now have
charge of Armory hall and those who have dates in the future must have
same verified at once.
The
soldier boys got a royal layout at Butler, Wednesday evening, not the
usual lay-out of a troop train on a P. & W. side track, but a splendid
supper.
Halpin
& Lewis are erecting a monument in the cemetery for the Mathers
Brothers. It is 33 feet high, seven feet four inches at, base; shaft 36
feet in one stone. It is estimated that it will cost $1,000, and is of
Barre granite.
The
Young Men’s Club, of the Baptist church was organized, Friday evening,
as follows: President, Daniel Davis, vice
president, Fred Snyder; secretary, Frank
Emmett; treasurer, Stacey Dean; board
of directors, Alfred Jenkins, Jas. Stewart, D. D.
Morgan, T. A. Charles and John L. Morrison.
The
Mt. Gretna camp ground is in Lebanon county, about eight miles from the
borough of Lebanon, on the Lebanon Valley railway, and about equally
distant from the main line of the Pennsylvania. It is about 30 miles east
of Harrisburg, and upwards of 8o miles northwest of Philadelphia, which
can be reached in three hours. It has no post-office, but one will be
established, and letters to the boys may be addressed to Camp Hastings,
Lebanon county, Pa.
A
number of young military men, former members of Company K, are making an
effort to organize a new company to take the place of the one now in
service. They are meeting with success, and it looks as if the full quota
of men would be secured before long. Already twenty-five names of persons
willing to enlist have been obtained. A meeting will be held in, the
Armory, Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. Information concerning the new
company can be secured from Harold Waugh.
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Own
Your Own House.
There
is a world of worry about where you are going to live. Finally, you will
have to take a house that does not suit you. I have some nice, well
located building lots on Plum street, Columbia avenue and Chambers avenue
at former low prices. No advance over one year ago. Any man who is able to
pay rent is able to own his own house. Figures and facts are stubborn
things, and it is said figures will not lie. Let us see:
You
can buy a nice lot, 65 feet front and 160 feet deep for $250. Now you must
own or buy the lot, then I will furnish you $500 for $7 per month for 120
months. Then you will have paid $840, and the debt is paid. The $500 will
build you as good a house as you can rent for $7 month; by paying the
taxes on it you will own it at the end of the term.
Some
will say the interest is exorbitant. Suppose you borrow $500 at 6 per cent
interest: One month, $2.50; 120 months will amount to $300, and the
original loan, $500, is $800 The difference is $40 in 10 years, or $4 a
year, a very small fraction over 6, per cent., and you cannot make a loan
on as easy payments, larger or smaller amounts, at same rate. You need not
give yourself any trouble about how the loan association is going to make
this operation pay them. You get the money in advance. All you have to do
is pay the loan in the monthly payments agreed upon.
LEVI
MORRISON.
Coal
Cut.—Chestnut Ridge Block coal now $2.50 per ton, Send in your order
prompt delivery. A. MILLER & Co,
Wear
Fredericks' shoes, Greenville.
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